Sodium Relief

🚀 Smooth your Minecraft inventory experience

Minecraft inventories can feel slightly stuttery — especially when hovering items, opening chests, or using modded GUIs.
Sodium Relief is a lightweight, client-side optimization mod that reduces small tooltip and hover-related stutter without changing gameplay.

⚙️ What it does

Smooths tooltip rendering on inventory-like screens
Reduces redundant tooltip recalculations
Stabilizes hover behavior when moving the cursor across items
Caches text-width measurements for repeated strings (like item stack counts)
Improves responsiveness in chests, menus, and modded interfaces

🧠 How it works

Sodium Relief optimizes the tooltip pipeline by:

• caching tooltip layout results (LRU + TTL)
• reusing previously computed tooltip data on unchanged hovers
• avoiding unnecessary recomputation during fast cursor movement
• caching repeated text-width measurements instead of recomputing them every frame
• applying lightweight hover-smoothing logic

All optimizations are client-side, safe, and designed to work alongside Sodium. When in doubt about an item or screen, it falls back to vanilla behavior.

🎯 When it helps

You'll notice the biggest improvement when:

• opening large inventories (chests, storage systems)
• quickly hovering over many items
• using mods with heavy or complex tooltips
• experiencing subtle UI micro-stutter

❗ What this mod does NOT do

• ❌ Does NOT increase FPS in the world
• ❌ Does NOT optimize chunks, rendering, or GPU load
• ❌ Does NOT act as a general performance booster

This is a focused GUI-smoothness mod, not a full optimization suite.

🧩 Compatibility

• ✔ Fabric — Minecraft 1.21.11 (Java 21) and 26.1.x (Java 25)
• ✔ Client-side only
• ✔ Requires Fabric API · works best alongside Sodium · Mod Menu optional
• ✔ Server-safe (no gameplay changes)
• 🌍 Available in English, Russian and Ukrainian

💡 Why use Sodium Relief?

Most performance mods focus on rendering or world logic.
Sodium Relief focuses on UI smoothness — solving a small but noticeable source of micro-stutter that's usually ignored.

📦 Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader + Fabric API
2. Download the jar matching your Minecraft version
3. Drop it into your mods/ folder

(Installing through the Modrinth App handles dependencies for you.)

❤️ Support

If you enjoy the mod, consider supporting development or leaving feedback — it directly shapes future versions (v1.1+).